Car-mover



(No Model.)

P. H. JACOBUS.

GAR MOVER. No. 558,076. Patented Apr. 14, 1896.

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PETER I-I. JACOBUS, OF MILLSTADT, ILLINOIS.

CAR-MOVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 558,076, dated April14, 1896. Application filed January 9, 1896. Serial No. 574,807. (Nomodel.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, PETER H. JAcoBUs, a citizen of the United States,residing at Millstadt, in the county of St. Clair and State of Illinois,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Movers, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention has relation to improvements in car-movers and it consistsin the novel arrangement and combination of parts more fully set forthin the specification, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure lis a side elevation of a rail with my car-movermounted thereon. Fig. 2 is a middle transverse section on the line :c seof Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a middle longitudinal section on the line y y ofFig. 2, and Fig. 4E is a perspective detached view of the rail-grippingblock carried by the movable block of the device.

The object of my invention is to construct a car-mover which will besimple, compact, contain a minimum number of parts, and one which willdevelop a maximum amount of efficiency, the parts being so arranged thatslipping on the rail under all conditions is avoided.

In detail the device may be described as follows:

Referring to the drawings, l represents the saddle of the mover adaptedto rest upon and partially embrace the top of the rail 2. The saddle ishollow and of a form substantially as that shown in the drawings, havingtriangular terminal walls rounded at the top and each provided along itsinner `surface with a U-shaped depression or socket 3 for guiding andreceiving the bifurcated block 4, inserted into the chamber of thesaddle. The forks or bifurcations 5 of the block i are provided with4suitable alining openings for the reception of the pin 6, which servesas a fulcrum for the moving-lever 7 whose short arm is suitably curvedto bear well against the flan ge of the wheel 8 of the car to be moved.The terminal walls of the saddle are provided with openings 9 10, thelarger opening 9 serving pin G.

In assembling the parts the bifurcated block 4 is inserted into thechamber of the saddle from the bottom of the saddle and shoved up vuntilthe openings of the bifurcations thereof come into alinementwith theopening 9 of the saddle. Then the lever 7 is inserted from the top untilthe opening 1l thereof also comes into alinement,when the pin is pushedthrough the openings of the several parts. The opening l0 of the saddleserves to permit the operator to knock out the pin should occasion ariseto take the device apart. The base or lower surface of the bifurcatedblock 4E is provided with a groove l2 for the recept-ion of theprismatic gripping-block 13. The latter is substantially a triangularprism, with one of its faces (viz., that -facing the rear of the saddie)concave, the object of this construction being to provide an inclinedcutting edge, as it were, along that edge of the prismatic block whichcomes in contact with the rail. The prismatic block is first slipped orinserted into the groove made for its reception, when it is secured by ascrew 14, countersunk into the base of the bifurcated block.

When the parts are assembled and the carmover placed upon the rail, therelative position of the several parts is that indicated best in Fig. 2,the bifurcated block being forced to the base of the U-shapeddepressions of the saddle, within which it is guided, the pin 6 thusoccupyinga position whence it cannot possibly drop out through theopening 9 and where the parts cannot possibly be displaced. As power isapplied and the long lever-arm 7 of the lever is depressed it isapparent that the resistance which the car offers to the short armcauses the cutting edge of the prismatio block to cut into and grip thesurface of the rail, and thus prevent any slipping of the device alongthe rail and away from the carwheel. It is also obvious that the cuttingedge of the prismatic block, 4being formed by the concavity of one ofthe faces, is such that it will prevent the slipping of the device alongthe rail away from the car, but readily permits the device to be movedtoward the car and in close proximity to the wheel, the gripping orbiting of the rail taking place only when the device is moved toward thecutting edge. It is on the same principle as passing a plane over a woodsurface on which IOO the plane moves freely in one direction, but cutsor shaves the wood if passed in the opposite direction.

Having described my invention, what I claim isl. In a car-mover, asuitable saddle adapted to rest on the rail, a movable block mountedwithin said saddle, a lever pivoted to said movable block, and a secondblock carried at the base of the movable block and adapted to grip therail upon the forcing of the lever against the wheel of the car to bemoved, substantially as set forth.

2. In a car-mover, a suitable saddle, a bif urcated block mounted in andguided within the saddle, a lever adapted to be mounted between thebifurcations of the movable block, alining openings formed in thesaddle, and the bifurcated block and the lever for the reception of asuitable pin or fulcrum for the lever, and a prismatic block having aconcave face and thus forming an inclined cutting edge adapted to gripor bite the rail upon the forcing of the lever against the Wheel of thecar to be moved, substantially as set forth.

3. In a ear-mover, a suitable saddle, a bifurcated block located andguided within the same, a lever pivotally mounted between thebifurcations, a groove at the base of the bifurcated block, a triangularprismatic block having a concave face and forming a rearwardly-inclinedcutting edge adapted to grip or bite the rail upon the forcing of thelever against the Wheel of the car to be moved, but sliding freely alongthe rail when moved toward the car or away from the cutting edge thusformed, substantially as set forth.

4f. In a car-mover, a suitable saddle adapted to rest on the rail, amovable block mounted within the saddle, a lever pivoted to said movableblock, and a second block carried at the base of the movable block, saidsecond block having a concave face whereby an inclined cutting edge isformed for gripping or biting the rail upon the forcing of the leveragainst the wheel of the car to be moved, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

PETER ll. JACOBUS. Witnesses ALFRED A. MATHEY, E. STAREK.

